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I briefly used Fedora (Gnome) on my SP7 which worked super well. Then I moved to NixOS because I'm a nerd 🤓
I've never used NexOS. I'm a beginner with Linux, started with the steam deck, fell in love with it, tried bazzite on my main pc, hated the non-imutability of the os and then went to Fedora KDE Plasma, and I love it, everything is just easy to use. But I was thinking of trying Arch KDE. (SomeOrdinaryGamer made a video recently with Arch, and it intrigued me)
I'd say arch is a great distro if you love to tinker a lot and/or want to learn a lot about the Linux ecosystem. If you don't recognize yourself in previous sentence I'd probably stick with fedora 🤷
In fact, I do find myself in the sentence, I tinker with all types of stuff, I wouldn't have tried all of this if I didn't also like it. I could always be comfortable and stay with Windows, but Linux is fun and and it teaches me a lot about operating systems and networking. Thanks for your words, now I think I will try going with Arch, I decided.